PHD
Virtual Backup 6.0 gives customers of all sizes the scalability and
flexibility they need, but for large enterprises, these products make
backup processes easier to manage and more efficient, while also
providing fully recoverable data at a moment’s notice. They also consume
the least amount of overhead and capital when compared to other products
on the market and provide encrypted
data protection that is required at larger enterprises.

"Customers continue to embrace server virtualization and are
increasingly deploying multiple hypervisors," said Robert Amatruda,
Research Director for Data Protection and Recovery at IDC. "PHD
Virtual's Backup 6.0 solution provides customers a cost-effective and
easy-to-deploy solution that supports multiple hypervisors and will
scale with their virtual environment.”

“In addition to the growth we have experienced within the SMB market,
we’ve seen a major uptick in our penetration in the larger enterprise
environments as well,” commented Jim Legg, CEO, PHD Virtual. “The
simplicity and cost-savings are definitely not exclusive to the smaller
organizations – the ease of use and data movement offsite provides a
powerful combination for any size corporation.”

PHD Virtual benefits for large enterprise environments include the
following:

Complete or partial restorations - provides administrators with
the ability to restore a complete server from scratch, by simply
selecting a restore point and target. No agents, no operating system
install, just restore a complete duplicate of the VM.

TrueDedupe technology - a true source-side deduplication of
data, meaning the deduplication and compression of the source data is
performed before sending the information across the WAN/LAN and before
the data is written to disk. This type of efficient deduplication is
critical for enterprises that require disk space to house the backups
for massive amounts of data while also being more scalable and pairing
down the overall backup window time. PHD performs deduplication by
comparing REAL data existing on the backup target while ensuring to
eliminate duplicate copies of data across ALL VMs stored on the target
making it more robust and preventing unnecessary job management to
achieve storage efficiencies.

Parallel processing model – this provides the ability to use
multiple data streams for backing up, restoring, and replicating with
the result that multiple jobs can run concurrently, In addition,
parallel processing allows the user to throttle, increasing or
decreasing the resources used for processing to balance the work load
and timing of the backup window in the data center.

Fault tolerant scaling – provides a 100% virtualized footprint
for your backups running on a Linux-based application that can scale
up and out by simply deploying more Virtual Backup Appliances (VBAs)
giving the ability to create fault tolerance and load balancing, while
providing performance that is required without the extra cost of more
physical infrastructure or extra licensing.

Replication – by backing up VMs once and storing them to disk,
PHD Virtual Backup eliminates the need for unnecessary snapshots on
your production VMs while maintaining the extra layer of protection of
having the replicated VMs located offsite.

Disaster recovery planning – PHD Virtual provides:

TrueRestore: a verification and self-healing process in
which the blocks being backed up are inspected both during the
backup and restore functions. By doing this, PHD ensures that the
data being backed up is indeed the same data that is going to be
restored.

Test-Mode: provides the ability to run replicated VMs in a
test mode located in a standby environment. This gives peace of
mind that the standby VM has been verified, is completely
operational and can be properly failed over.

Data recovery – PHD Virtual’s Instant Restore provides more
savvy recovery methods by allowing administrators to immediately
power on the backup VMs and begin a restore process simultaneously. By
doing so, PHD provides immediate access to servers and applications
and also leverages concurrent data streams, allowing them to implement
a technology called “mass restore,” which creates and configures a
single restore job that will process multiple VMs at the same time,
again reducing complexity and reducing the company’s RTO. Granular
restore is more common than a complete data center restore, so PHD has
provided support within their products to restore a file, virtual disk
within a VM, or single application object, such as an email, mailbox,
datastore, database, table, etc. This feature provides the
functionality to restore only what you need, when you need it, without
setting up any virtual labs or sandboxes to speed up recovery time and
prevent unnecessary data loss.

Backing up a constantly evolving data center – PHD Virtual
allows administrators to plug a backup appliance or VBA into virtually
any environment, including the cloud or software defined data center
(SDDC) or a remote or branch office, ensuring data is safe and
recoverable.

“PHD Virtual does VMware backup better than anyone else, especially for
enterprises like us,” said Barry Quiel, SunGard Public Sector,
California. “For our large environment, we needed someone that
specialized in moving lots of virtual machine data, while storing as
little as possible of it. We also need plenty of options to handle how
we move data off-site and to tape. PHD Virtual gives us all of the
options we needed to make sure our VMware environment meets our
enterprise data protection requirements.”

PHD Virtual provides the absolute best valuein virtual backup
and monitoring for VMware and Citrix platforms. More than 4,500
customers worldwide rely on our products because they are effective,
easier to use and far more affordable than competitive alternatives.
Delivering the highest performance and most scalable cross platform
backup and monitoring solutions on the market and pioneer of Virtual
Backup Appliances (VBAs), PHD Virtual Technologies has been transforming
data protection for virtual IT environments since 2006. Its PHD Virtual
Monitor provides a complete, end-to-end solution for monitoring virtual,
physical and application infrastructures in VMware and Citrix
environments. For more information, please visit: http://www.phdvirtual.com/

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